J.C. Chandor’s drama Margin Call finds an intriguing new angle on the financial meltdown of 2008: it treats the first 48 hours of the crisis like a horror movie, as a handful of people try to ...

From left, actors Kevin Spacey, Penn Badgley, Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci attend the premiere of "Margin Call" on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011, in New York.

Accuracy rating: 7/10 Set at a fictional Lehman Brothers-style investment firm in the early days of the 2008 financial crisis, Margin Call (2011) bills itself as an inside look at the meltdown. It ...